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The Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program has placed a heightened focus on fraud detection. This has resulted in a notable rise in requests for labour market impact assessments (LMIAs) and longer wait times for employers.
The Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program has experience increased demand for labour marker impact assessments (LMIAs). This increased demanded, combined with enhanced assessments to ensure that use of the program is limited to employers with a genuine need and to address potential fraudulent practices is resulting in longer wait times for employers.
Student Financial Assistance for Students with Disabilities
Pouvez-vous expliquer la radiation d’un montant de $212,5 millions de dollars en prêts canadiens aux étudiants?
Employment Insurance Program Performance
Canada’s federal and provincial governments have enhanced the Canada Pension Plan.
What is the Canada Pension Plan and its enhancement?
Given population aging, we should be trying to increase the age of retirement. Why did you restore the age of eligibility for Old Age Security to 65?
How do the Old Age Security (OAS) pension and the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) help ensure that the overall income of seniors does not fall below a specified threshold?
Can you explain how
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) is protecting public funds from
fraud?
On September 6th, Statistics Canada released the Labour Force Survey results for August 2024. The latest results show that employment was little changed in August (+22,100 or +0.1%). The unemployment rate rose 0.2 percentage points to 6.6%.